Andrew Chung, conductor

Andrew Chung was appointed as Music Director of Brass Conspiracy in January of 2008.

He is the Music Director of Silverthorn Symphonic Winds, the Scarborough Concert Band, and the Canadian Chinese Choir of Toronto. He has served as the Music Director for the Pickering Philharmonic Orchestra, the Halton Chamber Youth Orchestra, University Settlement Orchestra and the Scarborough Choralairs. While attending the University of Toronto, he was the Assistant Conductor for the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Music Assistant at the Opera Mississauga (now Royal Opera Canada).

He has attended the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, the University of Hong Kong, the University of Toronto and the University of Freiburg, Germany. His trumpet teachers include Stephen Chenette, Robert Nagel, Henry Nowak, Jeffrey Reynolds and Larry Weeks. He also studied privately with Arnold Jacobs and Murray Crewe. A scholarship from the Centre d'Arts Orford allowed him to study conducting with Raffi Armenian and Agnes Grossman. He has also participated in the Conductors Apprentice Program with the Huntsville Festival of the Arts Orchestra. His other conducting teachers include Dwight Bennett and Kerry Stratton.

Andrew Chung has guest-conducted the Hart House Orchestra, the North York Concert Orchestra, the Toronto Philharmonia, Korean Canadian Symphony Orchestra, Northdale Concert Band, the Toronto Chinese Youth Orchestra, the Mississauga Youth Orchestra, the Toronto Youth Wind Orchestra and the Milton Youth Choir.

As an orchestral musician, he was the principal trumpet with the Hong Kong Chamber Orchestra, the Hong Kong Youth Symphony, the Asian Youth Orchestra (under the direction of Yehudi Menuhin and Alexander Schneider) and the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra. He made his solo debut with the Mooredale Festival Orchestra. He has also played with Hamilton Philharmonic and Talisker Players.